Leon Strzelecki

Leon Strzelecki (11 April 1895-7 September 1968) was a Brigadier-General of the Polish Army during World War II.

Biography
Leon Strzelecki was born on 11 April 1895 in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. He served in Austria-Hungary's Polish legions during World War I, and he rose in the ranks of the Polish Army during peacetime. Strzeleci was promoted to colonel in 1931 and became commander of the Podolska Cavalry Brigade of the Polish Army in 1939, leading the brigade during the German invasion of Poland. Strzelecki fought at the Battle of the Bzura and during the Fall of Warsaw, and he would be held in a German POW camp until he was liberated by the US Army in April 1945. He went into exile in England after the end of World War II, and he died in London in 1968.